Spot market electricity prices for Sunday, Oct. 20

- Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data shows electricity market trade amounts to around 915 million Turkish liras

The highest electricity price rate for one megawatt-hour on Türkiye's day-ahead spot market for Sunday will be 2,849.02 Turkish liras at 8 p.m. local time (1700 GMT), according to official figures on Saturday.

The lowest rate was set at 99 liras at 12 p.m. local time (0900 GMT), the data showed.

The Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data for the trade volume for Sunday’s electricity market shows a decrease of 28.9% to around 915 million liras compared to Saturday.

The arithmetical and weighted average electricity prices on the day-ahead spot market are calculated as 1,729.68 liras and 1,721.04 liras, respectively.

The highest electricity price rate for one megawatt-hour for Saturday was set at 2,924 Turkish liras at 6 p.m. local time (1500 GMT) while the lowest rate at 1,424.99 at 12 p.m. local time (0900 GMT).

US$1 equals 34.13 liras at 2.37 p.m. local time (1137 GMT) on Saturday.

By Fuat Kabakci

Anadolu Agency

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